Crazy vs. Fool — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Crazy and Fool
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Crazy
Mad, especially as manifested in wild or aggressive behaviour
Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor
A crazy look
Fool
A person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person
I felt a bit of a fool
Crazy
Extremely enthusiastic
I'm crazy about Cindy
A football-crazy bunch of boys
Fool
A jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble household.
Crazy
(of an angle) appearing absurdly out of place or unlikely
The monument leant at a crazy angle
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Fool
A cold dessert made of pureed fruit mixed or served with cream or custard
Raspberry fool with cream
Crazy
Extremely
I've been crazy busy
Fool
Trick or deceive (someone); dupe
Don't be fooled into paying out any more of your hard-earned cash
She tried to fool herself that she had stopped loving him
Crazy
A mad person
Keep that crazy away from me
Fool
Act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way
Some lads in the pool were fooling around
Crazy
Mentally deranged.
Fool
Foolish; silly
That damn fool waiter
Crazy
(Informal) Odd or eccentric in behavior.
Fool
One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
Crazy
Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement
The crowd at the game went crazy.
Fool
One who acts unwisely on a given occasion
I was a fool to have quit my job.
Crazy
Immoderately fond; infatuated
Was crazy about boys.
Fool
One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe
They made a fool of me by pretending I had won.
Crazy
Intensely involved or preoccupied
Is crazy about cars and racing.
Fool
(Informal) A person with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity
A dancing fool.
A fool for skiing.
Crazy
Foolish or impractical; senseless
A crazy scheme for making quick money.
Fool
A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.
Crazy
Intensely annoyed or irritated
It makes me crazy when you don't tell me you're going to be late.
Fool
One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth
A holy fool.
Crazy
Disorderly or askew
One of the old window shutters hung at a crazy angle.
Fool
A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.
Crazy
(Informal) Extremely; very
That restaurant's always crazy busy on weekends, but it's worth the wait.
Fool
(Archaic) A mentally deficient person; an idiot.
Crazy
One who is or appears to be mentally deranged
"To them she is not a brusque crazy, but 'appropriately passionate'" (Mary McGrory).
Fool
To deceive or trick; dupe
"trying to learn how to fool a trout with a little bit of floating fur and feather" (Charles Kuralt).
Crazy
Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
His ideas were both frightening and crazy.
Fool
To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly
We were sure they would fail, but they fooled us.
Crazy
Out of control.
When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.
Fool
To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke
I was just fooling when I said I had to leave.
Crazy
Very excited or enthusiastic.
He went crazy when he won.
Fool
To behave comically; clown.
Crazy
In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
Why is she so crazy about him?
Fool
To feign; pretend
He said he had a toothache but he was only fooling.
Crazy
(informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
The game had a crazy ending.
Fool
To engage in idle or frivolous activity.
Crazy
(obsolete) Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle.
Fool
To toy, tinker, or mess
Shouldn't fool with matches.
Crazy
(obsolete) Sickly, frail; diseased.
Fool
Foolish; stupid
Off on some fool errand or other.
Crazy
(slang) Very, extremely.
That trick was crazy good.
Fool
(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
Crazy
An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.
Fool
(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
Crazy
Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.
Fool
(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
Crazy
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
Piles of mean andcrazy houses.
One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.
They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.
Fool
Buddy, dude, man.
Crazy
Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
Over moist and crazy brains.
Fool
(cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
An apricot fool; a gooseberry fool
Crazy
Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.
The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.
Fool
A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
Crazy
Someone deranged and possibly dangerous
Fool
To trick; to deceive.
Crazy
Affected with madness or insanity;
A man who had gone mad
Fool
To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
Crazy
Foolish; totally unsound;
An impractical solution
A crazy scheme
Half-baked ideas
A screwball proposal without a prayer of working
Fool
(archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
Crazy
Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness;
She was crazy about him
Gaga over the rock group's new album
He was infatuated with her
Fool
(informal) Foolish.
Crazy
Possessed by inordinate excitement;
The crowd went crazy
Was crazy to try his new bicycle
Fool
A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.
Crazy
Bizarre or fantastic;
Had a crazy dream
Wore a crazy hat
Fool
One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
Crazy
Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with;
Crazy about cars and racing
Fool
A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Fool
One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Fool
One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
Can they think me . . . their fool or jester?
Fool
To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
Is this a time for fooling?
Fool
To infatuate; to make foolish.
For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit.
Fool
To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
You are fooled, discarded, and shook offBy him for whom these shames ye underwent.
Fool
A person who lacks good judgment
Fool
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Fool
A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
Fool
Make a fool or dupe of
Fool
Spend frivolously and unwisely;
Fritter away one's inheritance
Fool
Fool or hoax;
The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
You can't fool me!
Fool
Indulge in horseplay;
Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!
The bored children were fooling about
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